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"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today. "
— Cherokee Proverb

tags: 2008, quotes
16 people liked it

"One of our greatest gifts is our intuition. It is a sixth sense we all have ā€” we just need to learn to tap into and trust it."
— Donna Karan, Fashion designer

tags: 2008, quotes
3 people liked it

"Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making."
— Michael Eisner

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"Engage your heart, your gut, and your mind in every decision you make."
— Carly Fiorina, Former CEO, , president and chairman of Hewlett Packard

tags: 2008-quotes
2 people liked it

"Leaders trust their guts. "Intuition" is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a "soft" notion. Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It's an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition."
— Thomas J. Peters

tags: 2008, quotes
4 people liked it

"People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye."
— Peter Senge

tags: 2008, quotes
1 person liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,552 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,978 people liked it

"Get busy living or get busy dying."
— Stephen King (Shawshank Redemption)

tags: life
876 people liked it

"Where there is love there is life."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: life, love
1,133 people liked it

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

tags: is---, life
2,393 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
11,443 people liked it

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
— Mark Twain

tags: literacy
6,267 people liked it

"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
9,597 people liked it

"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: books, friends, novelist, quotes
1,675 people liked it

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: books, children
1,046 people liked it

"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
1,733 people liked it

"Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home."
— Anna Quindlen (How Reading Changed My Life)

tags: books, journey, reading, travel
677 people liked it

"A book without words is like love without a kiss; it's empty."
— Andrew Wolfe

tags: books, inspirational, love, truth
987 people liked it

"'Classic' - a book which people praise and don't read."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, classic, reading
1,784 people liked it

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison

tags: books, writing
1,142 people liked it

"Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind."
— Richard Powers

tags: librarians
18 people liked it

"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. "
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: individuality, inspirational, success
38 people liked it

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: education
281 people liked it

"Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: education
328 people liked it

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
— Nelson Mandela

tags: personal-growth
36 people liked it

"All growth is a leap in the dark,
a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience."
— Henry Miller

35 people liked it

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
— SiddhÄrtha Gautama

tags: inspirational
822 people liked it

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
— Confucius

tags: beauty, everything, sees
216 people liked it

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity."
— Gilda Radner

tags: ambiguity, life, stories, uncertainty, unpredictability
1,066 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
2,780 people liked it

"Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear."
— Judy Blume

tags: books, censor, communication, freedom, philosophy
256 people liked it

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
— Ronald Reagan

64 people liked it

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
— Abraham Lincoln

773 people liked it

"People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: communication, fear
64 people liked it

"Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow."
— Lawrence Clark Powell

tags: communication
26 people liked it

""Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude" "
— Marcel Proust

15 people liked it

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after."
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh (Gift from the Sea)

tags: conversation
7 people liked it

"A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open."
— E.B. White

6 people liked it

"The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices."
— Richard Paul Evans

tags: -the, gift-
27 people liked it

"Every story has an end. But in life, every ending is just a new beginning."
— Dakota Fanning as Ray in Uptown Girls movie (2003)

tags: life
28 people liked it

"Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobodyā€™s going to know whether you did it or not."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: anonymity, integrity, morality
84 people liked it

"A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
— George Washington

tags: education, government, liberty, politics, youth
61 people liked it

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye."
— Miss Piggy

tags: humor
5,876 people liked it

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
3,704 people liked it

"If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it; that surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken, and so die."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

978 people liked it

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, god, inspirational, religion
1,940 people liked it

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos
476 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,185 people liked it

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